GIRLS FIRST FELLOWSHIP

Updated:February 18, 2021

ABOUT THIS PROJECT

GIRLS FIRST FELLOWSHIP &nbspis a virtual program designed to train more than more equip more than 100 young girls in Tanzania aged 18-27 with entrepreneurship skills and provide them with all the skills and resources they need to have a successful business. we believe one way to fight sexual harassment and abuse is to empower girls to have their own income and have their own voice in different aspects. Throughout the program, the girls will; be using our platform www.msichankwanza.org and learn three well-accurate modules including ideation, prototyping, and business model canvas, those modules will help girls to be ready to start their own business and once they are done with those modules the girls will be provided with one-month mentorship where there will be a coaching session on their business. The program has divided into three cohorts each cohort will be having 40girls from different regions of Tanzania thus make a total of 120 girls for a year. The first cohort started in February the next one will be in June and the other one in November

PROJECT STATS

Project Type App/Platform

Current phase of development Stage 3: Initial Piloting

Expected location of implementation Africa

Implemented in Tanzania

Direct Impact 40 people

Funding $ 1000

Sectors

Economic Growth and Trade, Entrepreneurship, Education, Gender, Non-discrimination

NOT YET BAHATI MGOGWE bahatifmgogwe@gmail.com

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HOW CAN OTHER MEMBERS HELP YOU?Connecting with funding
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WHAT EVIDENCE DO YOU HAVE THAT YOUR PROJECT WORKS?

June 2020, it was reported that 100 girls were impregnated in Ruvuma(one of the regions in Tanzania) in just three months after the National school closure due to Covid-19. These 100 girls will no longer be able to continue with their education. If the issue of sexual abuse and harassment continues, there will be a continuous rise of child pregnancies, child marriages, and school dropouts rates. These young girls and young women are subjected to so much violence, trauma, and psychological stress. However due to Tanzania education policy even after they give birth those girls are not allowed to go back to school. Therefore they will remain uneducated and unemployed.The entrepreneurship component will enable young women to develop key technical and soft entrepreneurship skills. The young women will be supported in generating social entrepreneurial business concepts tto create positive social or economic change in a variety of domains: for example, health, education, agriculture, gender equality and children’s right

Comments

Maria Fernanda

Montes Ribeiro

Wed, 03/03/2021 - 12:59

This is such an amazing…

This is such an amazing project! I'm definitely inspired by this initiative, thank you for sharing it here in our community!

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